$25K Worth Of Band Instruments Stolen From Anaheim Junior High School

December 21, 2011 3:41 PM

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ANAHEIM (CBS) — Thieves stole more than $25,000 worth of band instruments from an Orange County junior high school over the weekend, authorities said.

More than 20 tubas, baritones, saxophones, trumpets and drums were stolen from Sycamore Junior High sometime between Dec. 16 and Dec. 19, the Orange County Register reported.

The instruments were used for music classes and after hours programs.

School officials learned about the theft Monday morning after they discovered that the door to the music room had been pried open. Storage units inside the music room were also forced open and emptied.

Computers and other equipment in the music room were left untouched.

Earlier this month, several tubas, totaling $13,000, were stolen from a music room at South Gate High School.

Instrument thefts have also been reported at Compton Centennial and Huntington Park high schools, among others.

Some band leaders attribute the thefts to to Southern California’s banda music craze and to the high prices the brass instruments fetch on the black market.

A new tuba can cost upwards of $5,000, while a used instrument can cost $2,000.

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$25K Worth Of Band Instruments Stolen From Anaheim Junior High School

rick

I find it funny that with the lack of funds for schools, that any school would spend money on a band or music program. music is not a needed class, teach things that are needed and that can lead to a decent job.

music teaches everything

rick your opinion would be funny if not so sad
music is not needed.
it teaches students so much about math, languages, listening and cooperation.
these things are not important to you?

dave

i am in my 40s took piano ON MY OWN TIME paid for by my parents in a class OFF CAMPUS not in the school system. if you want them to learn math teach them math. if you want to learn a language then take one and learn it. you can learn to listen in any class. teach them things that will get them someplace in this world learning how to march down a field with a brass instrument WILL NOT SERVE THEM IN REAL LIFE. if a parent wants their kid to know this stuff fine pay for it your self do not make everyone else pay for it. especially when you are laying off teachers. music as far as playing an instrument should be an AFTER SCHOOL type thing and as such not paid for out of school budgets. i agree teach them ABOUT music let them listen to it and learn how it is composed and all that but there is NO NEED to have 25,000+ worth of instruments in each school when that money could be better used on updated text books in all subjects and more pay for the teachers
Brenda

music teaches everything
vous avez tort. la musique n’est pas une classe requise. J’ai un doctorat en mathématiques, je suis très habile à la coopération avec les autres avec les autres et j’ai clairement parler le français. si vous voulez que vos enfants ici en Amérique pour faire mieux que vous devez arrêter les choses d’enseignement comme de la musique à l’école publique et de laisser les choses comme ça pour les parents d’enseigner ou de payer pour le temps libre Childs. ce pays est de mettre à pied des enseignants, pourtant ils ne voient aucun problème de dépenser tout cet argent sur une classe qui n’a jamais été ment de faire partie de l’école publique. afin Richad Je conviens avec vous de tout cœur

newt

you are right rick, never mind about sports and music, let’s teach them how to scrub toilets so they can get a real job when they graduate!

marty

Just like your mama.

Josanna

Wow. You obviously don’t value the arts. You’d be surprised that musicians are some of the smartest people around – Music is not only creative, but all math. You learn history, music appreciation, concentration, teamwork among other things when learning music. Someone should write a book…Everything I learned in life, I learned from Music. Funny doesn’t even begin to describe your comment.

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Jose

My brothers had to steal that stuff. Dad spent all the welfare money on crack , again.
david

never said there was no money to be made in music i said there is better places to spend it then on something that 99% of the kids taking it will never use or need.
MIKEY WILL ALWAYS BE A PU$SY

The only instrument I am interested in is the skin flute. I can play a skin flute all night long.

Jeffery

Well at least you can make money playing that instrument
wg//af

I would let you play with my transgendered vag1na because it is as wide as a tuba.

rick

i value it fine.. i just think the bill should be paid by the parents and not the tax payers at large.. my daugher sings so my wife and i foot the bill for her lessons. why should you pay for my kids hobby??
rick

my deal is this if you want to be an engineer you need lots of math, but what ever math you learn in music class will not apply. so you may as well take the math in a real math class and save the fun stuff for after school and let your parents foot the tab not the tax payers
rick

music is a good thing but will do me NO GOOD on my real job. so in short KEEP THE FUN STUFF THAT IS NOT LIKELY TO EARN YOU A LIVING OR CONTRIBUTE TO ONE AS A HOBBY PAID FOR ON YOUR OWN, AND LET THE TAX PAYERS FOOT THE BILL FOR THE PRACTICAL EDUCATION that will make you a productive member of socity.